Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Samuel L. Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
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  • Birth: December 21, 1948

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DaySoulRacismPeopleSomeoneYou

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

Jill Dando

UnderstandingFriendsLongYouGo

I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!

Amber Rose

FamilyLoveGreatDaySunBlessed

I think I've been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think 'Pinkerton' is about that a lot - seeing how, every time I've felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I 'acquire' them or feel like I've acquired them, the passion goes away.

Rivers Cuomo

PassionTimeThinkFeelSomeone

I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh.

Dennis Farina

WorkPeopleThinkLaughNiceTry

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

David Trimble

PeaceMoralTrueTwoTraditions

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Christopher Plummer

TodayCityNobodyWantPaintLast

I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that whether or not I can hang out, I've always been the one to go in my room and chill.

Cherrelle

MusicSchoolTreatChillI CanKind

No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'

Alison Goldfrapp

MeYouLookPicturesEveryoneYour

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

Sean Durkin

MorningPrayerWordsSchoolPeople

Coming from where I came from, being a foster youth... like, living in all those different homes... I am glad I had those experiences because now, when I perform, I can come from a place of reality: I know how different people live.

Tiffany Haddish

LiveI AmPeopleYouthRealityKnow

Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.

Richard K. Morgan

MeWorldYouMoreWriteHead

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

Kenny Chesney

TimeDoingEnoughNeverSameYears

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